Smart Energy International

AUGUST 3, 2022

Since the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, the nuclear power generation fleet has had its output been effectively mothballed with output below 20% of earlier levels. GridBeyond team meeting Japanese Irish Prime Minister in Japan, July 2022. Demand side measures. Image: GridBeyond.

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R-Squared Energy

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Last month the Akademik Lomonosov, a first-of-its-kind floating nuclear plant built by Russian state nuclear energy corporation, Rosatom, arrived at Pevek, a port town on the remote Chukotka Peninsula in the Russian Arctic. There, the plant is expected to provide power to about 100,000 homes.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 10, 2023

The Statistical Review is instrumental in providing comprehensive data on global oil, gas, and coal production and consumption, as well as on carbon dioxide emissions and renewable energy statistics. Natural gas and coal demand stayed nearly flat with oil rebounding close to pre-pandemic levels. Global coal demand grew by 0.6%

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

gigawatt "all-source" procurement that will pit new renewables, energy storage, demand response and other clean resources against natural gas-fired power plants in a race to meet what could be a major shortfall in grid capacity in the next four years. gigawatts by 2022. California regulators have approved a 3.3-gigawatt

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Previous topics covered were: Global carbon dioxide emissions Overall highlights Oil production and consumption Natural gas production and consumption Coal production and consumption Global nuclear power trends Today, I will cover renewable energy in detail. Global Renewable Energy Consumption 1965-2022. exajoules, up 0.7%

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 30, 2020

billion in new wind and solar investments in the next 12 months and is outlining plans for electric vehicle charging, energy storage and green hydrogen production pilot programs to meet its goal to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Xcel made waves in late 2018 by setting its own net-zero carbon plans in advance of state mandates.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 14, 2022

This article is the fifth in a series on the BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2022. The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. Fossil fuels are primarily composed of carbon and hydrogen. has seen both supply and demand steadily declining for 15 years.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 7, 2021

A coal power plant in Lünen, Germany (image credit: Daniel Grothe , CC BY 2.0 The planned timeline for ending coal power generation in Germany could cause the country significant challenges as it battles to meet future electricity demand. This provides critical challenges for Germany, both politically and economically.

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Business Green

APRIL 25, 2022

Fossil gas' share of electricity supplies shrinks to less than 15 per cent over weekend as wind power meets more than half of UK demand. Just shy of 80 per cent of Great Britain's electricity generation was produced by low carbon sources on Saturday, according to the latest stats from the electricity system operator.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Renewable power sources are expected to dominate almost all the growth in the world's electricity supplies through to 2025, according to the IEA, and together with nuclear power they are set to meet the vast majority of the increase in global power demand over the period. remains a hugely challenging prospect.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 26, 2022

Note: The is the sixth article in a series on BP’s recently-released BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2022. Previous articles were: Wind And Solar Provided A Record 10% Of The World’s Power Generation In 2021. Alone Can’t Curb The World’s Carbon Dioxide Emissions. Why The U.S. Is Still The World’s Top Oil Producer.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 23, 2020

part of Ontario, Canada-based Nexus Renewables, to deploy a fleet of batteries at multiple sites in PG&E service territory and provide them for grid services starting in August 2022. In the long term, California will need a massive amount of new energy storage to meet its goal of 100 percent carbon-free energy by 2045.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 25, 2024

s proposed LNG projects would come online in a global LNG market anticipated to see export capacity increase by 43 per cent by 2030, but there is no consensus from governments or industry on future global demand. s LNG industry is the question of where the electricity will come from to power new projects. Many of B.C.’s

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2021

Whilst this is still only around 10 per cent of monthly demand levels for the winter months, the variable nature of wind generation is increasingly impacting the market over these periods.". "Forecasts indicate that over next winter, monthly generation from the CfD fleet could total between 2.5TWh and 3.0TWh," he said.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2022

Advanced nuclear technologies, modular manufacturing methods and new approaches to project finance could usher a more cost-effective era for the UK's nuclear industry, writes LSE's Esin Serin. As part of its approach to dealing with energy security concerns, the UK government has turned to nuclear power.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

“I want to talk about batteries for a minute because I know that everybody thinks that this economy is going to be operated on wind and solar and battery power, and it cannot. However, base load refers to the minimum amount of demand on an electrical grid over a given period of time, not a minimum level of constant supply.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 17, 2022

New analysis from LCP has revealed that the UK Government’s recently released energy strategy will boost efforts to decarbonise power supply but create complex challenges in balancing the supply and demand of electricity across the grid from 2030 onwards.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Under the contract announced Wednesday , developer 174 Power Global will build the battery system, and Con Edison will bid its power into New York wholesale energy markets for seven years after it starts operations in 2022. After that, 174 Power will take over the battery system’s operations and wholesale market value.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

She was invited on the show (1:24) to discuss the National Grid’s ‘demand flexibility service’ scheme, under which households and some businesses receive payments for using less energy at times of peak demand. She added: “And so whenever it isn’t windy we’re starting to get into issues of the grid being stressed”.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Hydrogen Economy” report forecasts that hydrogen from low-carbon sources could supply roughly 14 percent of the country’s energy needs by 2050, including hard-to-electrify sectors now dependent on natural gas such as high-heat industrial processes or manufacturing fertilizer. The “Roadmap to a U.S.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The energy industry's interest in low carbon hydrogen is building fast, and the nuclear industry reckons it could yet have a crucial role to play. The roadmap also emphasises the role that advanced modular reactors (AMRs) could play in powering green hydrogen production.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 29, 2022

Crypto mining operations and data centres are both in essence banks of IT systems – energy hungry with the demand for round-the-clock computation and the necessary cooling. The most obvious and potentially easiest option is to power mining with renewable energies. Energy reporting.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 14, 2020

Clean energy groups warned, however, that any new regional power market must be organized in a transparent way to avoid undermining state-by-state efforts to boost clean power and reduce dependence on carbon-emitting power plants. Eight more Western U.S.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2022

Nuclear targets increased to 24GW by 2050. Arguably the biggest change from the UK's previous energy plans is the Strategy's goal to deliver 24GW of nuclear power capacity by 2050, which it said would result in around 25 per cent of UK electricity demand being met by a major fleet of both large and small new reactors.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2022

In an analysis of the electricity market published late last week, the IEA warned the global economy could face three more years of turbulence and stagnating levels of carbon emisisons if national governments do not start to spend significantly more money on these clean energy and green grid technologies.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

From 2047 onwards, the energy system could then become net negative, absorbing more emissions than it produces through a mix of carbon capture technologies and solutions, which operate on both a standalone basis and while attached to power stations. Systems thinking is critical to delivering a low-carbon economy.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2022

To become energy secure and genuinely resilient from volatile fossil fuel prices, the UK must accelerate its transition to a zero-carbon energy system, writes Nick Molho, from the Aldersgate Group. Their price will vary depending on international changes to energy supply and demand as well as major economic and political events.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 20, 2021

As the third-largest producer of carbon dioxide emissions in the world today with an economy that's poised to see massive growth in the future, what happens to India’s energy mix will have a significant impact on the planet and its inhabitants. Still, coal isn’t going away. “Now, the question is what happens after that?

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2023

The think tank's new analysis, titled CO2 Emissions in 2022 , shows global energy-related CO2 emissions grew just 0.9 Carbon emissions from coal grew by 1.6 More than one in four cars sold in China, over one in five in the EU, and nearly one in 10 in the US were electric in 2022, according to data provider EV Volumes.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Over the past three years, some of the country’s biggest utilities have been committing to a goal that few may have predicted they’d undertake on their own: weaning themselves off carbon-emitting generation by 2050. Utilities in many states now face mandates to move to 100 percent renewable energy or cut carbon to zero by 2050.

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Business Green

MAY 9, 2022

The UK's new clean energy targets must be matched by a major electricity infrastructure and demand-side flexibility blitz, experts have warned. For more than half the time in 2030 the UK's renewable and nuclear backed energy system will be producing more energy from renewables and nuclear than it uses," said Chris Matson, partner at LCP.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 17, 2023

With the growth of e-commerce and demand for faster shipping (which means burning more fuel), maritime emissions increased nearly 5% between 2020 and 2021. IMO will assign a CII rating, with A being the best, least carbon-intensive and E being the worst, most carbon-intensive. What’s new? Maersk, MSC, Evergreen).

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Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The UN agency warned that water stress could jeopardise low carbon energy sources such as nuclear power plants and hydropower, both of which rely heavily on water supplies in order to operate, while rising sea levels and extreme weather are also posing a growing threat to energy infrastructure.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

In January 2021, representatives from the clean energy sector sent a joint letter welcoming the criteria recommended by the TEG and stating that “the inclusion of power generation with a carbon intensity above this limit would not only deviate from science, but would also harm the EU’s decarbonisation trajectory and its 2050 net-zero objectives.”.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

  KoBold Metals discovered a major copper deposit, which could be the start to solving growing supply and demand imbalances brought on by copper’s fundamental role in the energy transition.  Demand The most critical of energy transition minerals.   Demand is on the rise. Why is this important now? 

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Business Green

JULY 8, 2022

The update to the OBR's analysis concludes that should fossil gas costs remain high for over the long-term, it could cut the costs of delivering net zero by £116bn between 2022-2050, which amounts to 0.1

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivers a speech during a special plenary session of the EU Parliament in Brussels on March 01, 2022 (image credit: Alexandros Michailidis / Shtterstock.com). All suppliers bidding in this auction get paid the same price, namely the price that balances demand and supply.

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